BLOOD TEST

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1934, Page 4

BLOOD TEST

AUCKLAND AFFILIATION CASE. (Per Frees Association—Copyright). 1 AUCKLAND, De ember 1. j ' A matter of, paternity \v>as involved in an affiliation case before the | 'Magistrate (Mr Hunt). * Margaret Johnson, single, aged 24 years’, sought an order for affiliation against Mark Smith, an elderly man. The complainant said she had lived with the defendant in Wellington, j where he had a business as a rupture specialist. Smith, she alleged, knowing her condition, gave .her £lO to go to Christchurch to visit a certain woman. Eventually ishc had come to Auckland, where the child was born. She had taken £IOO in settlement in (September, 1930. The woman denied misconduct with Chinese. Counsel: Are you prepared to have this child subject to a- blood test? Complainant: No. , The Magistrate, (after seeing the child, said it would be better to have a blood* test. Mis s - Johnson would be entitled to have a doctor present and it 'Was suggested that 'three doctors should take part, a pathologist to .see the child in the afternoon. The Magistrate: Isn’t it curious that •you should settle with this man for £IOO and now you conic at- him 'again? —Well, I have had to keep the child and ./pay nil expenses. I have not been getting maintenance. Remarking that he wished carefully to consider the whole matter, the Magistrate adjourned the ca s e until Tuesdav.

PERJURY PROVED by tests. LONDON", December 3. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says:—Courts at Stuttgart and Neiningen have ' sentenced two women to long term s of imprisonment on charges of perjury, on tlio evidence of blood tests. After both women had named men as the fathers of their 'children, doctors declared, that blood tests showed that the paternity of the men named was impossible.